Gravity

Name: Gravity
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Jason Chin
ISBN: 9781666570496

Author: Jason Chin

Narrator: Pete Cross

Unabridged: 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 12/04/2018

Categories: Children's Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Physics, Astronomy

Synopsis

What keeps objects from floating out of your hand? What if your feet drifted away from the ground? What stops everything from floating into space? Gravity. Author Jason Chin takes this complex subject and makes it brilliantly accessible to young listeners in this innovative book. His expansive but simple narrative does justice to the subject at hand, looking at the concept of gravity in a whole new way. From the redwoods to the oceans to a small island, he now takes us to outer space in this thoroughly researched, exceptional addition to his body of children’s nonfiction.

About Jason Chin

Jason Chin combines imaginative storytelling and illustrating with intriguing science to create books that both enchant and educate. The author of several award-winning books, including the 2018 Caldecott Honor and Sibert Honor book Grand Canyon, he lives with his wife, Deirdre Gill, and their children in Vermont.

About Pete Cross

Pete Cross is an award-winning audiobook narrator and engineer who earned his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. A multiple Earphones Awards winner and Audie finalist, he was nominated for a SOVAS award for his narration of Moby Dick and received the 2022 Audie Award for Ryan La Sala’s Be Dazzled and the 2023 Odyssey Award for Ryan La Sala’s The Honeys.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Abigail on June 17, 2019

Author/artist Jason Chin, whose many wonderful works of picture-book natural history include Redwoods, Coral Reefs and the recent Grand Canyon, explores the scientific concept of gravity here. In simple text, he sets out the importance of gravity, not just in keeping objects (and atmosph......more

Goodreads review by Jill on November 22, 2014

In very simple and very understandable words - sometimes only one per page - Jason Chin explains what gravity does and why it is so important. He doesn’t say what it is until an Afterword, in which he supplies more (but not exceedingly) complex details about gravity. I think he does a great job. The......more

Goodreads review by Agnė on March 20, 2021

Gravity is a simple, informative, entertaining, and beautiful picturebook about a complex concept: the force of gravity. Although the text itself is only a few sentences long, the back matter has a little bit more information, which is easily understandable and accompanied by more explanatory - and w......more

Goodreads review by Richie on June 28, 2014

Richie’s Picks: GRAVITY by Jason Chin, Roaring Brook, April 2014, 32p., ISBN: 978-1-59643-717-3 “What goes up must come down” --Blood, Sweat & Tears Why must it come down? Why, gravity, of course! “Gravity makes objects fall to Earth. Without gravity, everything would float away. The Moon would drift aw......more

Goodreads review by Edward on June 08, 2014

Like evolution, gravity is "just a theory" but, as this book wonderfully illustrates, the universe would be quite a mess without it.......more